# GitHub outage on 7 October 2026

> On 7 October, GitHub had a critical outage affecting Git Operations, Pull Requests, Actions and Webhooks, with Issues also degraded; its status page incident ran from 15:14 to 16:25 UTC. The status page said the widespread impact occurred between 15:06 and 15:16 UTC, and all components were marked mitigated by 15:49, though Git Operations degraded again at 15:35 after briefly returning to normal. Litmus and Cursor also had problems at the same time.

- Service: [GitHub](https://stackpulse.app/services/github.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions
- Started: 2026-10-07 15:44 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-07 16:25 UTC
- Lasted: 41 min
- Incident open on the status page: 15:14–16:25 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/96smrcth8bpg
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/github/outages/2026-10-07-1544

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Git Operations | major outage | 2026-10-07 15:14 | 2026-10-07 15:21 |
| Git Operations | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:21 | 2026-10-07 15:27 |
| Git Operations | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:35 | 2026-10-07 15:49 |
| Actions | major outage | 2026-10-07 15:14 | 2026-10-07 15:32 |
| Pull Requests | major outage | 2026-10-07 15:14 | 2026-10-07 15:25 |
| Pull Requests | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:25 | 2026-10-07 15:31 |
| Webhooks | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:14 | 2026-10-07 15:16 |
| Webhooks | major outage | 2026-10-07 15:16 | 2026-10-07 15:27 |
| Webhooks | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:27 | 2026-10-07 15:49 |
| Issues | degraded performance | 2026-10-07 15:15 | 2026-10-07 15:47 |

## At the same time

- [Litmus](https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus.md): major_outage from 2026-10-07 15:50 UTC
- [Cursor](https://stackpulse.app/services/cursor.md): issue from 2026-10-07 16:02 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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